Roger Payne Scope Bracket

[rgg_7]

Hopefully Roger will respond to this. Can you or anybody that has a Payne No32 scope bracket post a couple pictures. Any distinguishing features? What size are the cap screws? Finish? Thanks Ron (Canada).

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[smle addict]

Here you go. Sorry, I don't know the size of the cap screws.

[Roger Payne]

Hello Ron. Thanks for yours & sorry if I am a little slow to get back to you; I've been standing an arms fair all day today. Having said that I really couldn't better smleaddict's photographs anyway - they well show you what people get for their money. The cap screws are tapered head 4BA exactly like the originals. When I do a batch of mounts I get enough screws made to complete them all (& thumb screws as well).

Hope this answers your question.

ATB.

[smle addict]

And just to add, outstanding quality for the price. Many thanks, DRP!

[rgg_7]

Awesome. thanks for quick response. Ron (Canada)

[bigduke6]

Ron,

More pics below of one of Rogers brackets,

[Brian Dick]

I'll add that these are the only new manufacture brackets I'll endeavor to fit. I don't mess with the crap brackets as sold by places like Sarco and Numrich.

[villiers]

I´d be grateful for detailed information as to differences between Roger Payne´s, the original and `crap brackets as sold by places like Sarco and Numrich.´ I purchased a repro bracket some time ago on the German eGun site and had it fitted by a reputable German gunsmith. I can´t see what else it could do other than take the scope and stay on target. Am I missing something? Or is this just one of those self perpetuating myths?

[Brian Dick]

I'm sure the cheap brackets can be fitted and collimated by a reputable gunsmith. However, we haven't got a clue what material, how, or by what method the cheap repros are made in China, India or wherever they come from. We DO know Roger's brackets are made in England exactly to MoD specification, of the exact same material and by the exact same method as the originals. They were so good in fact, that the MoD purchased a number of them for use in the final L42A1 rebuild programs in the 1980's. Like everything else in this life, you get what you pay for.

[villiers]

I´ve not the slightest idea whether the repro brackets were made in China, India or elsewhere. But I can vouch for the fact that mine is made of steel, as are the screws, that it is a perfect fit and that the gunsmith had not the slightest difficulty in collimating the scope on the rifle. Unlike the two different types of `non-gunsmith´ mounts I had previously, the repro bracket has not moved or loosened and holds zero even though I have to remove it whenever I take the rifle to the range. So I take it that the main difference is that Roger Payne´s mount is possibly in some (as yet unknown) way closer to the original. I would still be interested to learn of any difficulties experienced during use of the repro mounts.